the notion that inner city detroit will one day rebuild itself is laughable. really. having grown up in se michigan, thats all we ever heard from stalwart detroit boosters. which is fine, and certainly optimistic, but the notion that you can rebuild the inner city to some semblance of its former glory is delusional. you can clean up downtown, rebuild some historic hotels, build a people mover and street car, but it wont change the fact that 40 plus years of post riot mismanagement and a fortefied rim of scared and uncooperative suburban counties has not helped the situation. its not to say something wont thrive in the inner city, eventually, it will be nature. and i say fine. let detroit return to the earth, maybe even pioneer the first inner city urban farm belt on earth, thats my hope. but to allude to the fact that it will become a diverse, safe, and prosperous inner region within my lifetime is false. i hope im wrong though....
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